This is altered by over-extraction of water for irrigation and public & industrial usage. The mismanagement of river water resources leads to aggravated pollution levels in water, causes the river to run dry and wasteful irrigation. To restore flow of the river, it is necessary to maintain an ecologically-sound flow. An average…
contaminated surface and ground water, soil and sediments. This contamination dates back to before World War 2 where there weren’t any regulatory guidance on dumping waste whether it is chemical or otherwise. The contamination is in the form of metals, arsenic, pesticides, persistent organic, and other chemical waste dumped. Some of the waste do not contain an apparent risks to humans but are still required by federal…
Environmental Sustainability of Sustainable Urbanism in Western Harbour With the development of society, the life quality of human being greatly improved. However, it also leads to the destruction of nature at the same time. Because of the urbanization and industrialization, population increasing, many trees being lopped and the discharge of a large number of polluting gases, which all result in climate change. Climate change affects many different parts like environment, economic, and social in…
goods has been greatly affecting the economy of many countries in good and bad ways. Industrial by-products, poisonous pesticides, and nuclear waste all have to go somewhere. In most cases, a country can not safely contain substances in order to not contaminate or endanger their people and environment. To avoid contamination, countries ship away by-products to more technologically advanced countries. New imported waste can be beneficial…
Food waste is a topic nobody really talks about. It is even possible to say that not a lot of people are even aware of these issues. Every year 1/3 of the annual food production is thrown away in the garbage just to end up in a landfill. That’s 20 lbs of food per month; that’s basically money in the garbage. Perfectly good, edible, food is being thrown out and wasted. Countries around the world have people who are dying of hunger and here we are throwing edible food away. There has to be…
the problem of pollution on the earth is not understood by most people. 75% of Americans admitted to littering in the past year (King, 2013). The math comes out to be roughly 242,797,500 people that have thrown a piece of trash on the ground. This waste accumulates over time. The top two most common things littered are cigarette butts, and fast food packages. Smokers don’t think throwing their cigarette butt out the window or dropping it on the ground is littering, but it counts for 50% of…
know that increase has a lot to do with the growing population around the world. Yet, as we continue to grow in numbers of people, we also continue to lack a sufficient amount of natural resources to go around as well as places to absorb all of the waste we create. We have been given natural resources that can be taken for granted so easily because we never think of what life will be like when they’re gone. We have never had to live in a world without them so we need to learn, globally, how to…
Within the community of Swansea, I believe that a problematic issue in the environment is the amount of pollution present throughout Swansea Channel, and more specifically, under Swansea Bridge. To further understand the extent of this predicament and identify the main problems and potential solutions, I decided to interview various locals, figure out the most common types of pollution present, investigate how the pollution is affecting the environment, interview a dive expert and get some facts…
Mad Max: Fury Road paints a society where the line between "machine" and "human" is aggressively blurred. The dependence on fossil fuels and the dehumanizing objectification of humans leads to exploitation of both people and the earth. Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor provides a deeper context of the resource curses and inequalities that may cause such a society, both in the film and in our own world today. In the world of Fury Road, both humans and the earth…
The amazing penguin rescue and The seabird chronicle According to “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle”, the oil spills are hurting more than 41,000 little penguins. When the penguins were getting sick in the oil spills tons of thousands of people started helping to save the penguins. “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle” have similarities and differences such as the conflict and how the setting creates a specific mood of the story. One similarity…